The Ocean Liner Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABACCCCCCC CCDDEFCFE GHIIJKJKLMNNMO CCCCPN PNFQFQLDLDRRSEETTS CCCCUCUCCCCC

They went down to the sea in shipsA
In ships they went down to the seaB
In boats hewn of oak tree stripsA
In galleys with skin sewn sailsC
In triremes caravels brigsC
Frail flimsily rolling rigsC
They went down where the huge wave ripsC
Where the black storm lashes and halesC
They went down to the sea in shipsC
To the sounding sorrowing seaC
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They go down to the sea O meC
What ships that outbrave the seaC
What ships that outrun the galeD
With a feather of steam for a sailD
And a whirling shaft for an oarE
Are the ships that my brothers buildF
To carry me over the seaC
That my hand with treasures filledF
May knock at the morrow's doorE
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Steel hulls impenetrableG
To the waves that tease and pullH
Bright engines that answer the beatI
Of their foam slippered dancing feetI
Hot fires that shudder and driveJ
Close tended untiring sureK
Like queen bees deep in the hiveJ
Who labor and serve and endureK
All these are down belowL
Far under the slippery waterM
While the babe sleeps soft in his bedN
And the banquet table is spreadN
And my neighbor's laughing daughterM
Trims her hair with a rose red bowO
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They went down to the sea in shipsC
In ships they went down to the seaC
And the sea had a million lipsC
And she laughed in her throat for gleeC
And the floor of the sea was strewnP
With tempest trophies dreadN
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And the deep sea currents croonP
As they wash through the bones of the deadN
But the ships that my brothers buildF
Ah they mock at the storm's mad rageQ
And their burning hearts are thrilledF
When he throws them his battle gaugeQ
On the sea foam they lean for a pillowL
They drive without paddle or sailD
Straight over the mountainous billowL
Straight on through the blustering galeD
Oh they shake out gay flags as they runR
Flags that flutter and gleam in the sunR
From the tip of their turrets aboveS
They send news of the storm to the shoreE
And they hear from afar through the roarE
Down the cloud built aisles of the skyT
Some land bound lady's cryT
To her ocean wandering loveS
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They go down to the sea in shipsC
In ships they go down to the seaC
And my brothers the masterful freeC
Fear no more the white foam of her lipsC
They have won her she harks to their wooingU
The love of ten thousand yearsC
The suing the wild undoingU
The faith unto death the tearsC
Oh their glory her song shall beC
Soft soft is the kiss of her lipsC
They go down to the sea in shipsC
In ships they go down to the seaC

Harriet Monroe



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